NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 1:30-4:00 pm​Teaching in 21st Century Classrooms​ This seminar focuses on how to engage and support 21st century learners. Faculty participants will consider how to update their course content, improve communication, enhance student learning, support learning through assessment, and develop and sustain 21st century learning environments.​

Friday, March 24, 2017, 1:30-4:00 pm​Teaching the Graduate Seminar This seminar focuses on strategies for engaging graduate students during seminar classes. Faculty will explore how to promote teacher and student-led discussions, conduct a writer’s workshop (a process for peer analysis and critique of research proposals and/or studies), and how to help students develop and defend an argument. Faculty participants should come prepared to develop discussion questions and draft a model of an argument in their academic discipline.